Straighterline eBook problem

[alzee]

What's the best way to go about completing a SL course? Wondering if I should read each chapter and take notes, or just attempt the quizzes/exams and use the search function to find the answers.

For me, it's depended on the course. For the US History courses, I've just gone with what I know myself and searching the text, but history courses are "easy" like that when they're open book and lower level.

On the accounting courses, I skimmed/read through the material first so I knew how the text was structured so I'd know *how* to search/find things, and if I did terribly on the first exam, I'd buckle down and make some effort to study and take notes. Being able to retake the first exam in a course as many times as you like is a goodsend, I think I took the managerial accounting one 5-6 times.

The sociology and psychology courses were not open book or even open note on the proctored finals. For these, I tackled a little more seriously since I wanted to ensure that I wouldn't tank the final so bad that I didn't pass the course.

This system has worked great for me, personally. I've passed every course I've taken, most of them with a 90 or better -- not that grades really matter with SL.

On the Managerial Accounting final, my brain got so numb by the 10th or so question that if I didn't instantly know the answer and couldn't find it in the book, I just picked "C". I didn't even bother doing ANY of the math problems. I got a 48% on the final -- an atrocious score, but still much better than random chance would predict, and I only needed to score above 5% to pass the course overall. Knowing that going in takes off loads of stress on the mind numbing courses.